Kaspersky: Many East Europe oil, gas facilities face cyberattack
MOSCOW, Oct 18 (PRIME) -- Tens of oil, gas, and defense facilities in Eastern Europe have been cyberattacked on a large scale with advanced tactics and tools of spying and data theft, Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky said on Wednesday in a statement.
“The attackers exploited a module to infiltrate isolated networks via USB cables and a Linux MATA backdoor,” the statement read adding that it was a multi-stage assault.
Kaspersky discovered new samples of malware of the MATA family that were linked to group Lazarus in September 2022.
The perpetrators got into a network of a facility via phishing letters mailed out a month earlier. The hackers studied the victim’s corporate network and stole user data.
The specialists supposed that the attack could have been orchestrated by a person with a command of Korean since a great deal of malicious Word documents contained Korean script Malgun Gothic.
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